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Ikkyū Sōjun – The Zen Master Who Tore Away Every Mask

There are people who change history through armies, empires, or books. There are others who establish no new religion, create […]

The Wish-Fulfilling Tree Once, a wandering man accidentally found himself in heaven. According to Indian tradition, heaven contains a wish-fulfilling

Nagarjuna possessed only a single begging bowl, which he used throughout his simple ascetic life. The queen of the region

The Breakfast Is Getting Cold One day, a student approached his Zen master with a series of profound questions. „Master,

Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481) was a Zen master from Japan, born during a period of political turmoil and civil war. As

In a world that constantly pushes us to hurry, overthink, and search for complicated answers, some of the deepest truths

Dajian Huineng was the sixth Chan/Zen patriarch and one of the rarest exceptions in Buddhism. He was born in 638

Life in any monastery is far too broad a subject to generalize, as every monastery – even those sharing the

The name of the man known as “Buddha” is Gautama Siddhartha. The term “Buddha” comes from Sanskrit and is composed

Early Life Bassui Tokushō was born in Nakamura, a district in Sagami Province, in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1327. His